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Launch the nukes !

This is a real launch control bunker where nuclear tipped missiles would have been launched from the USA against an attacking enemy.

 

Fortunately it's now disused and a visitor attraction at the Titan Missile Museum, deep underground and behind several blast doors, not far from Tucson, Arizona.

 

Visitors are shown round the complex by staff and are shown the launch control center and also a missile sitting in the silo. On the panel in front of the man in the black and blue t-shirt is one of the two keys that would be turned to send the unstoppable missile on it's way.

 

A docent is explaining what the visitors are seeing.

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Uploaded on September 5, 2021
Taken on October 6, 2013